Controlling technocracy : citizen rationality and the Nimby syndrome / Gregory E. McAvoy.

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [1999], ©1999.

xi, 168 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-160) and index.

ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Elite policy networks and political control in policymaking -- ch. 3. The strategic state: hazardous waste siting through inducements and persuasion -- ch. 4. State officials and citizens: the siting deadlock -- ch. 5. Democratic governance and policymaking.